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“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
― George Carlin
He was really wrong about voting though. If it didn't matter, the fascist GOP wouldn't be fighting so hard to prevent people from voting.
He wasn't wrong. During this time the parties although different and Republicans being shitter, were much closer together. They were both pro corporate with differences on social issues.
Today.. The Republicans have gone full batshit trying to overthrow democracy. I guarantee you, if George was alive he'd be saying VOTE and vote for Democrats until we've gotten rid of the dangerous fascists.
Working from inside a system that has been corrupt from the beginning doesn't work
Many parts of the system were designed to disenfranchise various groups. One of the most effective of those parts is the message that your vote doesn't matter.
Refuse to be disenfranchised. GO VOTE.
And that they're all the same.
They're not.
Voting is like taking public transportation, it's not going to take you to your exact destination but you get on the bus that gets you closer.
Not getting on the bus because it doesn't go exactly where you want to, or you don't like the bus driver is allowing others to take you in the exact opposite direction.
Voting alone might not but it's an important part of the process. You should agitate and organize, but also go vote and get your friends to go with you.
Soap, ballot, ammo. Gotta go through the boxes in order.
That’d make a hell of a T-shirt slogan!
Why not
I love that there's always someone who brings this one thing up...
Nobody's right 100% of the time. But he was right far more often than not, and far more correct than most anyone else running their mouths about the same subjects.
So we need to make the machines complicated enough so we rise above the intelligence needet to not passivly accept our situation?